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Patrick Curran works the nightshift at Havenwood, a State facility for the intellectually challenged on the outskirts of Seattle in the newly incorporated City of Bitter Bay. He feels safe under the cover of darkness until the morning one of his residents discovers a skeleton in the crawlspace of an abandoned cottage slated for demolition. State Senator Mason Manning is running for governor, promising close Havenwood as a costly and obsolete institution. Unfortunately for him, the skeletons in his closet might include the bones discovered under Ash Hall where he worked the summer between ...

Elon, 37, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear just another voice, is determined to discover what is next for a world sunken and on fire. When Elon discovers a hidden retreat deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, he soon finds himself on the verge of regeneration, as a pack of loners band together amidst a society turned hostile and an environment turned violent. No longer must he travel alone with his shopping cart, his jug of gasoline, and rotten crabapples. Now, he has the chance to rediscover friendship and intimacy.

The father of the intelligent design movement, Phillip E. Johnson, thinks the new atheists are right! How? They’ve put serious discussion about God back on the public agenda. Despite their conclusions, folks like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett are asking the right questions. They’re making belief in any religion an issue again, especially in the university context where, for decades, questions about faith and reason have been taken off the table for serious discussion. Open debate is exactly what we need on the topics of God, evolution, and creation.

John Hart Crenshaw was the "Salt King” of Southern Illinois before the Civil War. The salt works he leased at Half Moon Lick near the town of Equality made him the richest man in the state. To mine the salt, he legally leased slaves from bordering states where the peculiar institution was believed to be blessed by biblical verse. But, he had other ways of obtaining the resources required to build and hold his fortune. "Salt of the Earth" is the story of the Reverse Underground Railroad, the cruel custom of kidnapping runaway slaves, freemen and families and returning them to servitude or ...

Do you find yourself struggling to focus while at work? Do you have to re-read the same paragraphs in books to get the message? Is it hard for you to remember passwords and phone numbers? If you resonate with any of those questions, you might want to improve your memory to learn faster, be more productive, and achieve more success.

When monsters rule the earth...Herein you’ll find a series of sojourns to places where humans are often quite literally overshadowed by the action at hand. This collection of exciting tales from writers who love the giant monster genre runs the gamut from mutation to invasion - from insurrection to vengeance - from the distant past to a far-off future, all with a single common factor: Great big game-changing things.

In the 1970s, Mark Johnson was a gangly North Carolina farm boy with a big imagination. An avid reader of Doc Savage pulp novels and Hardy Boys mysteries, Johnson knew he wanted adventure in his life. He just had no idea where to get it or how to escape the Christmas tree fields of the Appalachians. As a teenager, Johnson discovered music. Then, girls. These epiphanies would lead to an adventure even Johnson’s wild imagination couldn’t have predicted.

Sabers are rattling and the economy is tanking in 1937 when Walter, a young struggling farmer in Colorado meets Margaret, an independent and salaried woman shortly before she returns to teach English in North Dakota. Aside from a brief visit, the courtship between these blossoming soulmates resides entirely in these letters. The letters are filled with expectations and spiritual understandings colored by brief reflections on how such things played out in their lives and the life of the editor and collator.

Investing is pretty straightforward: the more time you spend on the right side of the market, the more likely you are to be successful. Join Mark Scheffler, Senior VP Wealth Manager at Johnson Financial Group for fresh market commentary, current investment trends and recent market turns. Investing involves risk. Past performance isn’t a guarantee of future returns. Nothing in our commentary constitutes investment advice tailored to any specific person. Information has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed.

Changing an organization is tough. Transformation is hard work that should not be attempted by the faint of heart or the weak of mind. But transformation is not rocket science either. By taking a realistic, simple, and direct view of what is required to transform an enterprise, the authors reduce the noise and nonsense that surrounds much of the discussion of transformation and provide straight forward lessons, examples and thought provoking questions to guide the listener to a more powerful position as an agent of change. 

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - April 2021 Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast: A quaint suburban couple rob their dying neighbor to settle an old score. Reach: A businessman travels to China to find the factory worker that left a curious poem in his child's Christmas present. Take-Em!: A father invites his liberal son to go duck hunting for quality time. The Angel In The Juniper: Holly meets an angel who tells her to kill her revolutionary professor. On Our Hands: An elderly woman tries to hold her family together as emotions heat up over populist politics. All Harriet's Pieces: A young...

In this insightful book, you will find the collective wisdom of 15 international thought leaders, scattered across three continents and multiple industries, as they share their best strategies for building influence and authority. Covering everything from video and print media to social media and consulting, Authority lets you inside the minds of experts who have built their own authority and helped countless others do the same.

La saggezza dei grandi maestri guerrieri orientali per conquistare una vita felice. Questo audiolibro racchiude dieci strategie desunte dai testi e dagli insegnamenti dei più grandi maestri guerrieri orientali. Qui trovi dieci leggi mentali che ti permettono di prendere in mano la tua vita e di guidarla verso la direzione in cui veramente vuoi andare.

The Porsche Experience Dubai offers an exclusive blend of luxury, performance, and adrenaline in one of the world’s most iconic cities. Designed for driving enthusiasts and corporate groups, it provides the opportunity to experience Porsche’s legendary engineering on a world-class track under expert guidance. Participants can test high-performance models, improve driving skills, and enjoy premium hospitality in a sophisticated setting. Ideal for corporate events, incentive travel, and VIP experiences, the Porsche Experience Dubai creates unforgettable moments that combine excitement, brand...

Join Mark Benton — VP of HR with experience at companies like PepsiCo and now McKesson — and Patti Johnson, former CEO, Board member, bestselling author, and strategic coach and advisor — for smart, funny, and real conversations about the things we’re all tired of — and, most importantly, what to do about them.They first worked together at Accenture and now bring their humor, honesty, and experience to topics that hit home — like being addicted to busyness, expecting too much of yourself (and everyone else), and finding your voice.It’s not their first rodeo — which is exactly...

Mark Johnson's occasional & opinionated podcast about family strategy boardgames

Mark Johnson’s third memoir chronicles an ironic year of surprise and transformation when one man’s life takes an unexpected detour and he discovers his destiny on the way to a new destination.As the story begins, Mark is poised for a new adventure. He has already navigated the ups and downs of his St. Louis childhood and retraced the path of his mother’s life from fertile ground. Yet, he doesn’t expect his journey with his husband Tom—selling their steady-but-often-snowy Illinois home and resurfacing in the warmth and serenity of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert—will prove to be as ...

Mark Johnson and Matthew Jackson both time served farriers with a passion for whole horse education, horse health, the barefoot horse and all things connected and of course a bit about horse shoeing too

Poems about things in life that can make you think, laugh or cry or something entirely different!

Mark Johnson's irregular podcast about small wargames.